Friday, January 27, 2017

I've scheduled another 5-day Linux/UNIX System Programming course to take place in Munich, Germany, for the week of 15-19 May 2017.

The course is intended for programmers developing system-level, embedded, or network applications for Linux and UNIX systems, or programmers porting such applications from other operating systems (e.g., Windows) to Linux or UNIX. The course is based on my book, The Linux Programming Interface (TLPI), and covers topics such as low-level file I/O;
signals and timers; creating processes and executing programs; POSIX
threads programming; interprocess communication (pipes, FIFOs, message
queues, semaphores, shared memory), and network programming (sockets).

The course has a lecture+lab format, and
devotes substantial time to working on some carefully chosen programming
exercises that put the "theory" into practice. Students receive printed and electronic copies of TLPI, along with a 600-page course book that includes all slides and exercises presented in the course. A reading knowledge of C is
assumed; no previous system programming experience is needed.